Blogs

= Blogs: = In Siena we set up a safe student blog and have encouraged students to blog about their experiences with the iPads. We can feed useful information from this into the recommendations and they gain useful experiences in blogging. They are very flexible though and you could set up a blog as a supporting platform for many UOI's.

We set up and account and added the class with [|Kidblogs]. However, we wanted it to be as easy to post as possible so I set up [|Wordpress] for the iPad. Once the students passwords and the url to kidblogs was set on each device they could post a blog comment with 2 or 3 taps.

Other classroom ideas for blogging include: • reflecting on their work throughout the year • keeping a diary or journal • creating pages for static information such as ‘about me’ • using a range of resources such as photos and videos in discussions • using threads to stimulate discussions.